Outlook outage takes down Microsoft email service for hours

Everybody’s working for the weekend, but Microsoft Outlook clocked out early. The mission-critical email service is facing a widespread, hours-long outage.

Microsoft says the Outlook outage means mailbox access may be unavailable for Outlook.com, Outlook Mobile, and Outlook desktop apps. The company also says that it’s working on a fix.

We’ve begun a broad expedited deployment of the configuration change across all affected infrastructure. We expect most impacted users will…